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Category: Music

  • Non-film Albums Now On MySwar

    We now have non-film albums listed on MySwar! We were always very clear that we wanted to include as much Indian music as we could on MySwar and after almost a year of toil, we’re extremely proud to add non-film music albums on MySwar. Let me start though with a little summary of what we…

  • Mirchi Music Awards 2012

    The popular FM radio channel Radio Mirchi gave out its annual music awards yesterday in a star-studded ceremony. Here is the list of awards: Song Of The Year – Abhi Mujh Mein Kahin (Agneepath) Album Of The Year – Agneepath Mirchi Listener Song Of The Year – Radha (Student Of The Year) Mirchi Listener Album…

  • 2012 Bollywood Music Review

    MySwar has a lot of data on Bollywood music over 2012 and we thought it would be fun to see what the data told us. So here goes: Number of film music albums released: 123 Number of songs: 843 Artists who passed away in 2012: Mehdi Hassan, Ravi, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Anil Mohile, Shahryar Notable…

  • A Look Back At 2012

    When we put our head down to crank out work, it’s hard to get a sense of what we are actually accomplishing. That happens only when we look back and assess what we delivered. I just did that and am filled with a sense of deep satisfaction and pride at what we delivered on MySwar.in.…

  • 1940s Hindi Films Albums Now Listed On MySwar

    When we launched MySwar.in late last year, we had Hindi film music listings for four decades, from 1971 to the present. Since then we have added three more decades – the 1960s, the 1950s and yesterday, the 1940s. We now have information on seven decades of Hindi film music in one place. 1940s was a…

  • The Beatles In Bollywood

    Some time ago, I wrote a post on the influence of Indian music on The Beatles. Many people landed on that post looking for The Beatles’ influence on Indian music, so I thought it was time to do a round-up of The Beatles in Bollywood: Dekho Ab Toh (Janwar, 1965) – Not only is the…

  • The Top 100 Bollywood Songs Of 2012

    For the complete listing of songs with a rating of 3 and higher (on a scale of 5), go to the popular song listing for 2012 on MySwar. Also check out the playlist of randomly-picked well-rated songs of 2012. (Note: Click Shuffle to refresh the playlist.) And now, for the Top 100 Bollywood songs of…

  • iTunes Quietly Launches Music And Films In India (Links Available On MySwar)

    Digital India was abuzz yesterday with news of iTunes launching its music and films stores in India. I particularly liked the following posts covering the launch: http://nh7.in/indiecision/2012/12/04/rip-and-run-itunes-india-store-is-finally-here http://www.medianama.com/2012/12/223-apple-finally-extends-itunes-store-to-india/ While the buzz is mostly positive: iTunes is so expensive. Bought a Radiohead album with 27 songs for Rs. 50 twitter.com/aneeshb/status… — Aneesh Bhasin (@aneeshb) December 5,…

  • Mavrix Monthly Update November 2012

    A quick note on what we shipped last month: Filters: All pages that have album or song listings, now have filters. For example, if you are browsing the list of albums released in 2012, and you want to see the films for which Pritam composed the music that year, Click on Filter, enter Pritam as Music Director…

  • Playlists – Now on MySwar!

    We have playlists on MySwar now! To save you the trouble of individually picking songs for the playlists, we’re rolling out a bunch of pre-packaged ones. You can find the Playlist button all over our website. Here is a list of the types of playlists we have for you: Album playlist – Playlist button on…